Eiffel Tower now has transparent glass floors !!!

Eiffel Tower's first floor was unveiled to visitors this Monday with new see-through floor. Visitors can now look down through a solid glass floor to the 57 meters (187 feet) below.

I don't care !

It's unbelieveable how many different ways one has to say « I don't care »  in French. From polite, to rude, to vulgar, there are different expressions to say one isn't interested in someone or in something...

Thousands march to defend "traditional family values" in Paris

Tens of thousands took to the streets in Paris and Bordeaux yesterday to demonstrate against what they call the government’s “anti-family” policies. The protesters, including a mix of hardline Catholics and traditional conservatives, declared their opposition to assisted pregnancies such as IVF and surrogacy for same-sex families.

French verb of the day : Découdre

Découdre : to take stitches out, unpick, (literary, in jest) to fight, do battle

Pronominal: se découdre - to come unstitched, to come apart

Pronunciation : [day koodr]

Je m'en fous

The first time I heard this word was at the French School of Lagos where I was working as a supervisor. It was my first job straight out of university where I studied French Language.

French verb of the day : Effacer

Effacer : to erase, to rob out, to strike out, (informatique) to delete, to clear out

Pronunciation : [ay fa say]

French verb of the day : Décerner

Décerner : to give, award, issue

Pronunciation : [day sehr nay]

French verb of the day : Étouffer

Étouffer : to suffocate, smother, stifle, choke, muffle, deaden, suppress, hush up

Pronunciation : [ay too fay]

Guinean students arrested for spending authentic 500 € bill in France

A Guinean female student and her cousin were detained for 20 hours between Monday and Tuesday in France for trying to pay with a 500 € bill which was not a counterfeit.

French verb of the day : Délaisser

Délaisser : to abandon, quit, give up, neglect

It's october 1st...

Nigeria celebrates her independence day. Sadly as a nigerian, I see nothing to celebrate...

Facile comme fastoche !

Have you already heard the expression fastoche. It's a word common amongst children which means easy. Some adolescents use it too but that doesn't mean an adult can't use it. It's a familiar word that can be used when with family and friends but not in a formal environment.

Nicolas Sarkozy pictured with Jay Z & Beyonce at the Champions League in Paris

Beyoncé et son mari Jay-Z étaient aux côtés de Nicolas Sarkozy pour assister à la victoire du PSG face au Barça. Des stars sur la pelouse et dans les tribunes  Et pourquoi pas un futur duo Carla-Beyoncé ?

Bref, je suis nigériane !

Logo of French television series called Bref.

One of my favorite French expression is the word bref. As a French student in Nigeria, I used bref only as an adjective {bref (masculine) and brève (feminine)} which means brief or short.

French verb of the day : Dégoiser

Dégoiser : to spout, rattle on

Fatou N'diaye : French black beauty blogger

I am not really into fashion blogs but I do have one beauty blogger I follow on Facebook who shares great beauty tips from hair to skin to make-up.

Curse words in French

When learning a language, we often learn first the bad words and later on when we master the language and know what is socially accepted and what it not, find it difficult to drop them.

Oh le boloss !

Boloss is a new word in the French Slang dictionary. No one knows the exact spelling so it's written as either bolos, boloss or bolosse.

French verb of the day : Devoir

Devoir - should, must, ought to, have to, supposed to

France mourns French tourist beheaded in Algeria

France is in grief and shock as she mourns the death of French national Herve Gourdel, 55, who was beheaded Thursday by a terrorist group in Algeria. The deadly sect split from al-Qaida and pledged